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Visiting Madrid on Thursday, Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA)
Parliamentary group leader Alexis Tsipras said that the forces of the
left in southern Europe were at the start of a difficult but very
important effort to "prevent the forces of capital from eroding the
social gains that had been won in past decades through struggles and
sacrifices".

Communist Party of Spain SG Jose Luis Centella, in a statement after
his meeting with Tsipras, said he was certain that the two parties
would fight together so that the working class would not have to pay
for the crisis.

The head of Spain's United Left political coalition, Cayo Lara, also
appeared sanguine that the parties of the left will continue to work
together to resist the crisis.